Athletics Weekly

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Ask the british agents for overseas athletes,they favour their athletes over british nationals because they get a cut of the athletes money..

Good point

Dont any of you want our talent to be the best they can be? Or do you think a 46.1 400m and 1.45.7 is not talented enough. If UKA Experts were looking at Darren they would have seen where he needs to improve..3.58 1500m! Darren and his coach are working on this weakness you would have seen this with...

Most of the 80's great's had financial aid alot of them recieved money from private people (fans) Eddie kouacondous etc, along with brands and brown envelope's athlete's on the most part recieved money. To think otherwise shows naivety. How can you truly recover from your workout if you are standing...

When Darren makes the world final 800m and runs 1.44 what will you say then? I tell what i will say,imagine what he could have run with funding, because the funding would mean he does not have to work. The £8000 Darren would receive would be plenty because he lives at home. Who was your 'friend'????...

I mentioned he should be on Development funding!!

Peter elliot worked full time for sheffield steel left to train full time and picked up a silver at '88' seoul

Your 'friend' might have got faster had he been funded

Does anybody think i have a point?

Or am i pissing in the wind?

So should DSC give up?
1.45 800m/46.1 400m age 25 and no funding for the last 6 years!
I have spoken DSC and he feels he can't go on for much longer without funding.

I feel his grit and talent need to be rewarded with a little bit of funding.

Also their is a FUTURES program coming out for younger athletes so their was room to put Darren on the Development funding

Their is plenty of athletes on development funding that are older than St Clair. Colin Mc Court is 25 and the javlin woman laura. Their was room to put darren on development as it is for people who are 4 years away from making a final at Olympics or worlds and looking at darren performance and devel...

Of your answer i believe Darren should be on Development funding as i feel he is between 2-4 years away from reaching his full potential and becoming a world class 800m runner. In addition the last Olympics in Beijing the standard was 1.46.0 which gaurentees selection to the team. Darren has this ti...

back to your point St Clair went backwards during those UKA coaching years. Just looking at the times he is running now for 400m for instance no athlete should be able to improve their speed considerably by the age of 24 (which he did going from 47.2 to 46.1) showing poor coaching at an early age as...

The more 'experts'we bring in the worse our male athlete's seem to get. Have you been down to Lee valley? it's embarrassing the coaching is not expert I was lucky enough to have worked with real coaches in the 70's & 80's,not a degree in sight! The beauty of track and field is measurement,look a...

By the way St Clair from the ages of 18-23 was coached by UKA coaches (However this was his worst period barring 2007) does this show that UKA coaches dont know how to coach????? I think so

Darren trains at lee valley(London) He does some of his training in 'US' to be with his coach(this comes out of Darren's own pocket),which means if he's there training he is not working and comes back to work in UK to raise more money,pretty dedicated! He's been doing this for 8 years with no fundin...

Maybe if 'Clement' did not work he might have won the olympics or medaled? When Andy Turner's funding got stopped he was still being payed by 'nike and Malcolm was still getting funds from the welsh. 2-3years diff osagie and st clair The difference with st clair is 1. never recieved lottery funding ...

ANYONE OUT THERE???

Darren St .Clair PB's in the last 2 years beats Rimmer at CP makes FINAL at Delhi and still no funding (last had funding 6 years ago which was £5oo!!!) Darren has to work to pay his way,when he should be resting he's working,i should know because i work with him. As someone who has been a runner sin...